The NHL regular season was to start Oct. 11. All exhibition games were canceled last Thursday, and the exhibition schedule lasted until Oct. 8. You don't need more than a calendar to deduce regular-season postponements are coming, likely this week.

Daly said the league lost about $100 million by canceling the preseason.

He also again blamed the stalemate on the NHLPA's unwillingness to compromise on the topic of the revenue split; players currently receive 57 percent of the league's $3.3 billion-and-growing pie, and owners want to dramatically reduce that number—apparently, before meaningful negotiations actually resume. The league's last offer, which came Sept. 12, eventually gave the players about 47 percent.